When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives.

But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items. And when they returned with a new one, the safe had been emptied while they were gone - according to FBI documents.

Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion’s staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.

After the FBI spoke to Kahn’s then lawyer, Kahn agreed to hand over the suitcases untouched, but he did not want agents coming to his house and declined to say who had told him to remove the items.

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    8 days ago

    Ooh, ooh…I know. Because he’s still alive, and in some kind of witness protection program.

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      Diamonds, passports… These would definitely be useful if you wanted to fake your own death and move to some isolated location to start over.

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        7 days ago

        Are we gonna ignore the CDs and harddrives full of videos of famous and rich people fucking children?

        "We seem to have misplaced the warrant for that, we’ll be back in a couple of hours it would be a shame if it somehow disappeared in the meantime…"

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        He was career blackmailer for a foreign intelligence agency, in league with the CIA, actively threatening oligarchs with what he knew, they killed him.

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          No, he’s playing War Games, the fun game of Global Thermonuclear War. Fun for the whole family.

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          Yeah, that was some dipshit who changed his own account name to match the publicly available name of Epstein’s old account.

          The guy didn’t even hack Epstein’s old account, just used the account rename option on his own.